Machan / Unknown / Helgason From Iceland to the Americas

Vinland and historical imagination
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2876-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

This volume looks at how Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland around the year 1000 has been reimagined in the modern era, taking on a range of media from scholarly works on history and mythology to novels, films and comic books. More broadly, it asks why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Machan, Tim William

Helgason, Jón Karl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Vinland on the brain: remembering the Norse – Tim William Machan
Part I: Imagination and ideology
2 Journeys to the centre of the mind: Iceland in the literary and the professorial imagination – Seth Lerer
3 The ‘Viking tower’ in Newport, Rhode Island: fact, fiction, and film – Kevin J. Harty
4 Critiquing Columbus with the Vinland sagas – Matthew Scribner
5 Vinland and white nationalism – Verena Höfig
Part II: Landscapes and cultural memory
6 Migration of a North Atlantic seascape: Leif Eiriksson, the 1893 World’s Fair, and the Great Lakes landnám – Amy C. Mulligan
7 Norwegian-American ‘missions of education’ and Old Norse literature – Bergur Þorgeirsson
8 Americans in Sagaland: Iceland travel books 1854-1914 – Emily Lethbridge
9 The good sense to lose America: Vinland as remembered by Icelanders – Simon Halink
Part III: Recasting the past
10 Spectral Vikings in nineteenth-century American poetry – Angela Sorby
11 ‘Who is this upstart Hitler?’: Norse gods and American comics during the Second World War – Jón Karl Helgason
12 ‘There's no going back’: The Dark Knight and Balder's descent to Hel – Dustin Geeraert
13 Old Norse in the New World: the mythology of emigration in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods – Heather O’Donoghue
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim William Machan is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame
Jón Karl Helgason is Professor of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland